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Podcast: Primer on the CEP Recommendations
Some of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking?s (CEP) key recommendations focus on making the most of the data the government already collects by giving qualified researchers greater access to data from government programs and surveys. At the same time, the CEP calls for strengthening privacy protections to ensure that those data are not misused. It also recommends ways that departments can increase their evidence capacity, meaning their ability to use and build evidence about what works.
To learn more, Andy Feldman?s podcast is joined by Nick Hart (@NickrHart) who served as the Policy and Research Director for the Commission. Today, he is the director of the Bipartisan Policy Center?s Evidence-Based Policymaking Initiative.
See another report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the Publications section that comes to similar conclusions as the CEP.
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The Fruits of Collaboration
An alliance of 11 public research universities shows that sharing data, ideas and practices can help more low-income students graduate. Three years ago a group of public research universities set out to prove that by working together they could significantly increase the completion rates of low-income students without reducing quality or diminishing their research productivity. And recently they released new evidence that they are not only achieving their goals, but on track to surpass them.
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ADRF Network Inaugural Conference
As surveys continue to experience declining response rates and incur rising costs, the research community from government, business, and academia have been turning to administrative data as a powerful supplement. However, standards for accessing and using administrative data for research purposes are currently not well established in the US. Join the Administrative Data Research Facilities (ADRF) Network, a newly formed collective of professionals, at their inaugural conference to share approaches and foster collaborative opportunities in advancing this emerging field.
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Survey on ACS Data Products
The Census Bureau would like to get your feedback on current ACS data products to help ensure that future enhancements and changes to these data products are customer-focused. If you have suggestions for improving ACS data products, please submit your recommendations by completing this short survey. Please submit your comments by October 24, 2017.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Return of the College Scorecard
The Department of Education released updated information on its college transparency tool, including a new comparison feature. An Obama administration initiative that provided consumer information on colleges and universities has survived for another year and into the Trump administration.
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Census Bureau Releases Statistics of U.S. Businesses
The U.S. Census Bureau released the 2015 Statistics of U.S. Businesses data tables by establishment industry. This release includes single-year estimates of the number of firms, number of establishments, employment and annual payroll. Data are presented by state, industry and enterprise employment size.
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Visualization of the Week
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The Internet Is a Series of Tubes
TeleGeography?s free interactive Submarine Cable Map is based on our authoritative Global Bandwidth research, and depicts active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations. Selecting a cable on the map projection or from the submarine cable list provides access to the cable?s profile, including the cable?s name, ready-for-service (RFS) date, length, owners, website, and landing points. Click here and scroll to toward the bottom to learn more about how the visualization was made.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we?ll include it here.
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
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Census Bureau
- 2018 Survey of Income and Program Participation Panel (November 1, 2017)
- Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (November 1, 2017)
National Center for Education Statistics
- 2017-18 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study Administrative Collection (October 31, 2017)
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